Research and Development Support Officer - Huntingdon

Job overview

The post holder will play a key role in the co-ordination of the delivery of the Clinical Research, in all Clinical Directorates. Provide support for Chief and Principal Investigators and their research teams within the clinical directorates to enable the efficient and high quality set up and running of Clinical trials within the Trust in compliance with the legislation of the Health Research Authority (HRA), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), National Research Ethics Service and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines.

The role encompasses working proactively to manage your own workload effectively and efficiently as part of a team, autonomously and with colleagues to carry out a wide range of duties to support the Care Quality Team. There will also be various responsibilities and deadlines; therefore, given the nature of this post, the post holder may be required to work in a flexible way to respond to work patterns and internal and external deadlines and requests.

*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*

Main duties of the job

Please see JD for main duties and responsibilities, key points are listed below

• taking an overarching view of the clinical trials to assess, arrange and confirm capacity and capability to deliver within the Trust ensuring that they are meeting the UK Governments set up targets
• auditing and monitoring Clinical Research within directorates to ensure research practice meets the quality and standards set out in the UK Policy Framework for H&SC
• provide guidance and training on Clinical Research practice and the use of the Research Management System
• Support research teams with analysing study protocols for the Trusts capacity and capability of running clinical research trials at both a financial, resource and practical level.  Liaise with clinical and non-clinical staff to support directorates to ensure all requirements for each study have been negotiated and are in place
• Where barriers exist for the delivery of Clinical Trials within directorates, work on mapping exercises with the research teams to overcome these hurdles with assistance from the R&D Manager
• Analyse, investigate and report on national research benchmarks to the clinical directorates.  Identify barriers to patient recruitment to time and target and implement solutions and action plans with the R&D Manager as required to overcome these barriers.  Where necessary, to be responsible for forwarding or uploading trial data/accrual in a timely manner to the UK CRN coordinating centre and information Manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.